Quarter final draw - Hibs v ICT

[Billy Whizz]

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That’s 3 days between games so don’t think that’s an issue. Same gap as we would have from Saturday to the derby.

I was stating they had a big game before they play us
Beeb have had Saturday night games in the last 2 rounds

[Sir David Gray]

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It's Thursday on their website and BT Sport have it then too.

It's 100% on the Wednesday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...cores-fixtures

[weecounty hibby]

I would hope that sensible pricing is at the front of mind if it is in the telly. Nothing worse than seeing a half empty ER on the telly. A chance to try out the singing section in FF lower as well perhaps

[h1bs4life]

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I think it will be the following:-

Fri night - Hibs vs Inverness - BBC
Sat noon - Hearts vs Rangers - Premier
Sat night - St Mirren or Motherwell vs Aberdeen or Kilmarnock - BBC
Sun afternoon - St Johnstone vs Celtic - Premier

Going for these dates as well, tv companies don't give a toss about fans.
St Johnstone v Celtic 12:00 on the Sunday .Premier Sport get the last game, get the semi-final draw done and dusted before the English League Cup Final starts.

[Hibbyradge]

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I would hope that sensible pricing is at the front of mind if it is in the telly. Nothing worse than seeing a half empty ER on the telly. A chance to try out the singing section in FF lower as well perhaps

I don't believe that many people will refuse to go to a very favourable home quarter final tie, at the end of the shortest month, because prices haven't been reduced by a fiver or so.

It'll be £20± for adults and usual for concessions.

[The 90+2]

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I would hope that sensible pricing is at the front of mind if it is in the telly. Nothing worse than seeing a half empty ER on the telly. A chance to try out the singing section in FF lower as well perhaps

Day after payday and a massive chance to reach Hampden. Should be a very good crowd.

[CMurdoch]

Fri night - St Mirren or Motherwell vs Aberdeen or Kilmarnock - BBC
Sat noon - Hearts vs Rangers - Premier
Sat night - Hibs vs Inverness - BBC
Sun afternoon - St Johnstone vs Celtic - Premier

The Rangers and Celtic games are shoe ins for the above time slots.
No way Police Scotland want loads of Rangers fans firing about Edinburgh on Saturday night.

[Scott Allan Key]

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Yes. ICT at home

I can feel a semi coming on.

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The few jambos I know with the requisite opposable thumbs for texting, seem to be raging at hibs drawing ICT while they get the most difficult draw “as usual”.

[The 90+2]

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The few jambos I know with the requisite opposable thumbs for texting, seem to be raging at hibs drawing ICT while they get the most difficult draw “as usual”.

Mind boggling man. Have they seen their draws in both cups?

[Eyrie]

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Fri night - St Mirren or Motherwell vs Aberdeen or Kilmarnock - BBC
Sat noon - Hearts vs Rangers - Premier
Sat night - Hibs vs Inverness - BBC
Sun afternoon - St Johnstone vs Celtic - Premier

The Rangers and Celtic games are shoe ins for the above time slots.
No way Police Scotland want loads of Rangers fans firing about Edinburgh on Saturday night.

Sevco won't want a lunch time game if they've travelled back from Portugal, so it's more likely that their game at the Tiny PBS will be 6pm and our game at 12 noon. Plenty of time between the two matches.

[Eyrie]

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Mind boggling man. Have they seen their draws in both cups?

I think that's the point. We get teams at a lower level than us, they get teams at the same level they're at.

[The 90+2]

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I think that's the point. We get teams at a lower level than us, they get teams at the same level they're at.

Fair point. 👍

[The 90+2]

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Sevco won't want a lunch time game if they've travelled back from Portugal, so it's more likely that their game at the Tiny PBS will be 6pm and our game at 12 noon. Plenty of time between the two matches.

When’s the last ferry back to Northern Ireland on a Saturday?

[WoreTheGreen]

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When’s the last ferry back to Northern Ireland on a Saturday?

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[emerald green]

Even though Celtic have officially got an away tie at St J, it will be just like a home tie for them now that St J have decided to surrender three sides of their stadium to Celtic supporters.

[Keith_M]

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....A chance to try out the singing section in FF lower as well perhaps

I agree that it would be a good idea, just to get a sense of the level of interest, or even just to do something a bit different for the day.

I think that will depend on whether the club want to guarantee ST Holders the right to buy tickets for their own seats, though, so they might need to be persuaded to take a different approach this time.

Whoever puts the idea to the club would have to prepare a decent case for it, to 'win them over' as it were.

[Joe6-2]

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Draw has been very kind to us

We will take that, it doesn’t happen too often

[The 90+2]

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1690

Walked into that one 😁

[B.H.F.C]

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I agree that it would be a good idea, just to get a sense of the level of interest, or even just to do something a bit different for the day.

I think that will depend on whether the club want to guarantee ST Holders the right to buy tickets for their own seats, so they might need to be persuaded to take a different approach this time.

Whoever puts the idea to the club would have to prepare a decent case for it, to 'win them over' as it were.

They aren’t going to do anything radical with pricing. It’d be good to see them try something a wee bit different to generate a bit of atmosphere though. I don’t know what, but it’d be good to see them thinking outside the box a bit.

Chances are it will be the standard approach. 20 odd quid for a ticket, 7 or 8 thousand empty seats and the club not really trying to push or market it.

[emerald green]

Can't ask for any more than a home draw in a cup competition, but ICT will be no pushovers given our defensive frailties.

It's something their wee fat manager will be well aware of.

[WoreTheGreen]

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Walked into that one 😁

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[Keith_M]

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They aren’t going to do anything radical with pricing. It’d be good to see them try something a wee bit different to generate a bit of atmosphere though. I don’t know what, but it’d be good to see them thinking outside the box a bit.

Chances are it will be the standard approach. 20 odd quid for a ticket, 7 or 8 thousand empty seats and them club not really trying to push or market it.

You're probably right about the price. It's worth making an approach about the FF Lower, though, from any group interested.

As I mentioned, they'd really need to be careful about how they approach the club and prepare a good argument in favour. There's definitely good and bad ways of approaching this and assuming a negative result before the event will probably result in just that.

[WeeRussell]

Very good draw. We ended up being fairly ‘comfortable’ in the end against Dundee Utd which was an away tie initially. No excuses for not dealing with ICT at home now.

Then anyone but old firm in the semi.

Then actual semi time.

Our season could get a lot more exciting all of a sudden.

[Leith's finest]

Hope they do not price the game out. Would love to see £15 per adult and £10 per kid/over 65 etc but can't see that happening. From what I hear when Hearts played Airdrie it was £10 per head, can't remember last time we done that

[hibbysam]

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They aren’t going to do anything radical with pricing. It’d be good to see them try something a wee bit different to generate a bit of atmosphere though. I don’t know what, but it’d be good to see them thinking outside the box a bit.

Chances are it will be the standard approach. 20 odd quid for a ticket, 7 or 8 thousand empty seats and the club not really trying to push or market it.

It’s the quarter final of the Scottish cup, at home, against a lower league side. If folk can’t be arsed to get along to ER because it’s £20/£22 then that’s their loss. The game shouldn’t need marketed, folk should be fighting over tickets for it. Simple truth is that folk will always find an excuse not to go, reducing the price by a fiver won’t change that, and the club aren’t going to take that loss.

[Hibbyradge]

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Hope they do not price the game out. Would love to see £15 per adult and £10 per kid/over 65 etc but can't see that happening. From what I hear when Hearts played Airdrie it was £10 per head, can't remember last time we done that

£15, £20 or £23 will make no absolutely difference to the attendance.

[Lancs Harp]

A James Keating goal the last time we played them in the cup quarter finals in 2016. Attendance that day was just under 10,000.

[B.H.F.C]

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It’s the quarter final of the Scottish cup, at home, against a lower league side. If folk can’t be arsed to get along to ER because it’s £20/£22 then that’s their loss. The game shouldn’t need marketed, folk should be fighting over tickets for it. Simple truth is that folk will always find an excuse not to go, reducing the price by a fiver won’t change that, and the club aren’t going to take that loss.

On the basis that folk won’t be fighting over tickets, they do need to try something different to fill the place. Doing the same thing as they’ve done historically will result in the same thing happening which is quite al lot of empty seats.

If it’s not price related, which it won’t be, then they need to try something to fill the place, create a better atmosphere or whatever.

[Hibbyradge]

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On the basis that folk won’t be fighting over tickets, they do need to try something different to fill the place. Doing the same thing as they’ve done historically will result in the same thing happening which is quite al lot of empty seats.

If it’s not price related, which it won’t be, then they need to try something to fill the place, create a better atmosphere or whatever.

I think, and I hope, that we'll hear about plans to start making going to ER more attractive to more people.

I'm not sure what that will entail, but I agree with you that we need to improve the offering, and not just on the pitch.